Learn more about this enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education enable students all over the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers make sure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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